Bowling’s great. Especially when you combine it with cocktails, non-sweaty shoes, a 1950’s vibe, an authentic American diner serving everything from corn dipped Mississippi fish finger sandwiches to chargrilled prime beef steaks, and private karaoke booths. Just in case you accidentally on purpose elect to get drunk, you know. READ MORENumbers? Up to around 21Also check out: Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, which sport a similar retro vibe and allow you to book up to 8 lanes at once.–

A basement cocktail bar with a simple menu of traditional Provençal snacks and a sizeable array of the region’s prime anise-flavoured apéritif, pastis. They also have a gravelled indoor pétanque court, where the goal is to throw hollow metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball. Simple. Unless you don’t have arms.Numbers? There’s only one lane, so unless you want to play in rounds, it’s probably best to cap it at around 8.–

Yes, it’s a whisky bar with over 200 varieties on their shelves, bottled house cocktails and bar snacks like ‘haggis pops’, but the best part is the pair of virtual shooting ranges stretching down its middle – complete with tweed-heavy dressing up box – that allow you to take a shot at simulated game like deer, grouse, and wild boar. READ MORENumbers? £60p/h for up to 40 people–

“Shoreditch royalty” would be a relatively adequate summation of Bar Kick. Then again, so would “a bustling, rambunctious football-inspired bar offering a menu of epicurean sandwiches, charcuterie and cheese, cocktails, beer, wine and – most importantly – foosball tournaments.”Numbers? Groups between 10-35 can reserve areas with 1 or 2 football tables.

Shuffleboard is an unexpectedly addictive game. In fact, the Tudors had to ban it from the general public, because it was stopping them from doing useful things like going to work, and practising their bow and arrow technique. And they didn’t even have cocktails from an airstream caravan, freshly baked pizzas or DJs to go with it… READ MORENumbers? 4-8 people per lane, with 6 indoor and 2 outdoor lanes–

A partially crowd-funded board game café in the heart of Hackney and the archways beneath Waterloo station, stocking more than 500 games and a much smaller selection of local craft beers, ales, ciders and wines, as well as homemade baked goods. READ MORENumbers? You can book for up to 8 people, which is about as many people as you can squeeze around a decent sized board-game…–

Set over 12,000 square feet of a Russell Sage-designed space in Holborn, Bounce features an impressive 17 ping-pong tables, a 40 foot bar serving seasonally-inspired drinks, a DJ booth and a raised restaurant for overlooking the action. In short, if table tennis was fun before the addition of cocktails, music and all of your friends – which it was – then Bounce has done the nearly impossible, and actually made it better. READ MORENumbers? Basically anywhere from 2 people to, apparently, 500. You can book tables, or indeed an entire room of tables

Swingers is crazy golf like a Ferrari is a way of getting from A to B. Each of their vast, beautifully decked out spaces have two golf courses, three restaurants, and – in the City – five bars. Yes, five. SWINGERS CITY | SWINGERS WEST ENDNumbers? The place is vast, and they have private rooms that can be hired for groups of 12-500 people.–

From the competitive minds behind both Bounce and All Star Lanes, FC boasts animated, automatic dartboard scoring; virtual guides; a collection of fast-moving games; pizza boards and canapés; and touch screen interfaces invented by a rocket scientist. Oh, and booze. READ MORENumbers? You can book for up to 400 people, but it’s probably best to stick to under 40.–

Karaoke is a legitimate sport. It requires skill, determination, perseverance and finally, alcohol. And to bring all that together, you need one of these excellent bars, where you can book a private booth, pay per person, and bring all manner of cocktails into said booth… SEE ‘EM ALLNumbers? Some of these joints fit up to 30.—

A pop up bar where you’ll don robes, grab a wand, and create two molecular cocktails using magic and/or science. Expect cauldrons overflowing with smoke; colour-changing cocktails; and beer from a tree… READ MORENumbers? Up to 80–

As well as looking like the broody basement bar of a lower NYC whisky refinery, Original Sin is also one of the rare gems which exist to provide you with only one thing: fun. Oh, and a free pool table. READ MORENumbers? Sunday to Thursdays they book for groups up to 15, however on Friday and Saturdays it’s only for groups of 6 people.–

A Peckham bar / pub specialising in all your classic misspent-youth arcade and video games like Pong, Asteroids, Tron, Pac Man and Streetfighter II. READ MORENumbers? You can rent the entire console room for between 5 and 30 people.–

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones… but those on the roof of a Stratford car park definitely should. Because the Social Fun & Games Club is back at Roof East for the summer with curling lanes; crazy golf from Birdies; hip hop bowls; batting cages from Sluggers; and virtual reality foosball. And a cinema. READ MORENumbers? Up to 8 on one lane, or for parties of 40+ they’ll set aside a games area with your own bar.–

Turns out you can fit a lot in one railway arch. Downstairs is the Breaking Bad RV, filled with yellow boilersuits, ‘cooking’ equipment, and a boatload of cocktail recipes for drinks that smoke, bubble and change colour. Upstairs is Sinner; a shot bar where you pay for tokens, play video games, and receive shots of varying palatability depending on your score. READ MORENumbers? Up to 80–

Sin Bin overlooks the huge (almost two football pitches-wide) ice rink at Queens: Skate Dine Bowl, where you can score cocktails, MEATliquor grub, and the perfect spot to recuperate after you’ve exhausted the games arcade, the pool tables, the bowling lanes, the ice skating, ice hockey, curling… and human curling. READ MORENumbers? Dependent on activity, but there are also private bowling lanes available.–

Most of your time at the Four Thieves will be spent trying to get out of there. That is, if you’re playing their in-pub escape room, Lady Chastity’s Reserve. The rest of the time, of course, will be amply filled by their retro arcade games, VR experiences, indoor blacklight crazy golf course aaand epic remote control car-racing game.Numbers? The escape room has a max of 6 players at once, and that’s probably a sensible number for the other activities, too.–

Golf: hitting a tiny ball with a tiny club into a tiny hole hundreds of metres away behind trees, water beds and sandpits. Urban Golf: kind of just like that, except virtual, and indoors, and warm, with 50 of the world’s best courses on electronic hand, and a bar food menu, with drinks.Numbers? Anywhere ‘from 8 to 150’, they claim. But realistically, 150 people can’t play golf simultaneously, so take that for what it’s worth.–

Nine Lives is all about zero waste – even the pith from the lemons used in their cocktails is recycled to make soap for the bathrooms. So it makes sense that they’re not wasting any part of their stylish bar space, either – by installing a tabletop shuffleboard in a secluded corner. READ MORENumbers? Up to 8–